Quick Guide to Setting Up a Minecraft Server

I’ve been meaning to write up a guide to setting up a minecraft server ever since I made the walk-through of our Minecraft server last year. It’s finally here so put on your nerd glasses, you know the ones you bought with the thick black frames and no lenses, and lets jump right into it. This will be showing how to set up a vanilla server and believe me, once you figure that out then setting up Bukkit or any other mods won’t be too difficult.

The first thing you will need is a server, dedicated or VPS although VPS servers will be cheaper. For the sake of this we are using a VPS so you won’t see me installing Linux. Our VPS is CentOS 6.2 with 1Gb of RAM. It’s up to you on what you want but if you go more or less make sure you change out the text where I tell you to change out the text. Detailed instructions under the video.

To access the vps you will need to use PuTTY, once downloaded open it up, put in the vps ip and connect. Type in your user/pass for the root account, the user is most likely root.

Step 3) Open the port on your firewall for Minecraft
You will want to directly copy the line that has the number 22 in it and just replace 22 with 25565. Yours may look dffirent from what I have/using.